I get the impression that they would take care of anyone who was different. I don't know about "deformed".

I don't think of dwarfs as deformed but they do look decidedly different. These people seem to have risen to high positions at court. There are sone stelas showing that these 'short people' would find a position at court, marry and be highly respected.

The only other story that comes to mind is one of the attendants of a king (New Kingdom) who gets a captive from the battle field as a slave and trains him in his household and later marries him to his blind niece. This couple also are made his heirs.

I have no idea what a peasant could do for a handicapped family member though. They didn't exactly have it rich and I have no idea what would happen in those cases. I presume the family would try to take care of them? You have to wonder if people with handicaps would not be more susceptible to illnesses and they may have had a drastically shorter life-span?

This interests me because I met this really cool 14-year-old last Friday who is handicapped. And I was just interested in how the handicapped/disabled people were treated then in Egypt compared to now in the US.

In the CT scan just done on Tutankhamen, there was no evidence of anything that would have made Tut use a crutch or a cane.
Maybe he just liked to collect them!
Also, it was considered a sign of great status to the Egyptians.

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